Multi-functional end effector

ABSTRACT

The present invention discloses a multifunctional end effector, comprising a base (54) and a cutting tool (39); a feed slide (52) on the base (54) and a feed driving mechanism used to drive feed slide (52) to feed cutting tool (39); a swing slide (55) on the feed slide (52) and a swing driving mechanism used to drive swing slide (55) to realize circular arc swing of cutting tool (39); a mounting base (12) on the swing slider (55); a revolving rotation shaft (20) and a rotation shaft driving mechanism used to drive revolving rotation shaft (20) to make the cutting tool rotate in the mounting base (12); an eccentric slide (27) fixed to the end of revolving rotation shaft (20); cutting tool (39) is connected to the end of eccentric slide (27) via the electric spindle (37) and an eccentric regulating mechanism used to regulate eccentric slide (27) and control radial bias of cutting tool (39). Use feed driving mechanism to realize feed of cutting tool or feed of cutting tool along the swing trail through combination with swing driving mechanism; use eccentric regulating mechanism to realize radial bias of cutting tool; make use of rotation shaft driving mechanism to realize feed of cutting tool along the helical trail; it can realize such functions as drilling, boring, reaming, helical milling and reaming of elliptical recess.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention is related to the field of auto drilling fordigital assembly of airplane, in particular to a multifunctional endeffector.

BACKGROUND ARTS

Accompanied by accelerated development of aviation industry, higherrequirements have been increasingly put forward for the flightperformance of airplane. To reduce deadweight, and improve invisibilityperformance of the airplane, such materials as aluminum, titanium alloyand carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) have been applied to thewings of airplane in large quantity. Upper and lower sidings of thewings of modern airplane are in an integral structure, which hasextremely higher requirements for assembly. Lower siding is to beconnected to internal frame with bolts and nuts in advance in case ofassembly of wings of the airplane. As one side of frame is connectedwith a lower siding, it is impossible to use conventional bolts and nutsto connect upper siding to be further assembled with the frame. In suchcase, it is necessary to install lug-free plate nut on the framefirstly, and then use bolts and lug-free plate nuts to connect and fixupper siding to realize integral assembly of wing structure.

To realize connection of lower siding between bolts and nuts of theinternal frame, it is necessary to make through-hole on the laminatedrack formed by siding and frame. The CFRP and titanium alloy belongs tomaterials that are typically difficult for processing with excessivelyvaried processing performance. With regard to laminated structure formedby the two materials, fabrication of through hole with conventionaldrilling and milling approaches may result in ablation and lamination tothe CFRP and curving to titanium alloy. To improve hole quality, thereis no choice but to repeatedly use drilling-reaming-boring techniquethat has such disadvantages as low efficiency, high impact fromartificial factors and instable perforation quality. As a new drillingtechnique, helical milling is quite different from conventional drillingtechnique, which is characterized in that the cutting tool with diameterslightly smaller than that of hole is available for high-speed rotationand revolution around the central axis of hole during processing, andthe trail of cutting tool center is a helical line. Helical milling canproduce hole with varied diameters by using the same cutting toolthrough change of eccentricity. Its eccentric processing approach isfavorable for removal of chips; whereas its intermittent cutting processis favorable for heat dissipation and extension of service of thecutting tool. Furthermore, less axial force during drilling can minimizegeneration of burs on titanium alloy, and restrict lamination to theCFRP.

To realize connection between upper siding and internal frame, it isnecessary to make mounting hole for lug-free plate nuts on the frame. Asthe connection port of lug-free plate unit is an ellipse, it isnecessary to proceed with secondary processing to make an ellipticalrecess at the inlet port of through hole on the frame to completeprocessing of mounting hole for lug-free plate nuts once the throughhole is made on the laminated structure formed by upper siding andframe.

Presently, elliptical recess is artificially made. In view of itscomplicated processing techniques, it is necessary to define orientationof processing tool so as to realize precise reciprocating swing ofcutting tool along the positioned orientation. This will bring forthhigh difficulty to processing, which may result in low processingefficiency and high processing cost.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

In view of excellent drilling performance of helical milling and urgentdemand for automatic reaming of elliptical recess, a multifunctional endeffector according to the present invention can realize helical holemilling and reaming of elliptical recess simultaneously;

precision of through hole and elliptical recess as made by the devicecan be assured through positioning of processing orientation by sensorand accurate measurement of feed rate of spindle, bias and swing angleof cutting tool by numerous measuring elements. As a critical part ofdigital, automatic and intelligent drilling system, such multifunctionalend effector can realize flexible auto drilling, helical milling andreaming of elliptical recess of high precision and efficiency based onend connection assembly and combination with numerical controlled (NC)lathe.

The multifunctional end effector provided by the present invention istargeted at materials that are difficult for processing, such as theCFRP and titanium alloy used to large parts of airplane, which canovercome ablation and lamination to the CFRP and curving to titaniumalloy as brought forth by conventional drilling approaches owing to itsintegrated functions as helical milling and reaming of ellipticalrecess.

Specific technical solutions of the present invention are stated asfollows:

a multifunctional end effector, comprising a base and a cutting tool;

a feed slide on the base, a feed driving mechanism used to drive thefeed slide to put the cutting tool into motion;

a swing slide on said feed slide and a swing driving mechanism used todrive the swing slide to realize circular swing of the cutting tool;

a mounting base on the swing slide; the mounting base is provided with arevolving rotation shaft and rotation shaft driving mechanism used todrive the revolving rotation shaft and make the cutting tool rotate;

an eccentric slide fixed to the end of the revolving rotation shaft; thecutting tool is connected to the end of the eccentric slide via theelectric spindle;

an eccentric regulating mechanism used to regulate the eccentric slideto control radial bias of the cutting tool.

According to the present invention, the cutting tool is fixed to theelectric spindle on the end of eccentric slide; the feed drivingmechanism aims to drive feed slide to realize feed motion of swingslide, mounting base, revolving rotation shaft and eccentric slide so asto make the cutting tool shift to work pieces for drilling, boring orreaming;

Simultaneously with feeding of cutting tool, the swing driving mechanismwill drive swing slide, and set mounting base, revolving rotation shaftand eccentric slide into circular arc swing to realize feeding ofcutting tool along the swing trail and reaming of elliptical recess;

Furthermore, it is applicable to control radial bias of the cuttingtool, and keep it away from the center of revolving rotation shaft bycertain distance regulation of distance between eccentric slide andrevolving rotation shaft by using eccentric regulating mechanism. Afterthat, simultaneously with feeding of cutting tool, the rotation shaftdriving mechanism will drive revolving rotation shaft for rotation torealize feeding of the cutting tool along the trail of helical line andhelical milling.

In a preferred embodiment, one side of the base is installed with endconnection assembly for fixed connection with the lathe; cable andpipeline modules are integrated inside the end connection assembly torealize quick positioning and connection of CNC (“Computer NumericalControl”) machine;

The other side is provided with a presser foot used to press workpieces, a cylinder used to put the presser foot into motion along thepresser foot guide and a feed shaft length gage used to measure feedrate of the presser foot. Driven by the cylinder, the presser foot isused to press work pieces, and measure and feedback feed rate of presserfoot via the feeding shaft length gage to realize precise control ofcutting tool feed and processing depth.

In a preferred embodiment, the presser foot comprises a pressing sleeve;numerous laser range sensors are provided at the periphery of thepressing sleeve to detect normal vector of hole position on work piecesthrough coordination; the center of presser foot head is provided with aworking cavity for penetration of cutting tool; the cavity wall isprovided with chip removing hole linked up with the chip removing tube;such chip removing tube is connected to the induced draft fan; suctionforce produced by chip removing tube at the chip removing hole canremove chips produced during processing of work pieces in time.

In a preferred embodiment, the feed driving mechanism comprises a linearguide pair, a ball screw feed driving assembly connected with the feedslide, a feed motor used to drive the ball screw feed driving assemblyfor rotation to realize feed motion of feed slide along the linear guidepair and a linear grating used to measure the feed rate. In other words,the feed motor makes use of the ball screw feed driving assembly to setthe feed slide into motion along the linear guide so as to realize feedof the cutting tool; through detection of displacement to the feedslide, the linear grating aims to provide feedback of feed rate torealize precision control of recess reaming depth.

In a preferred embodiment, the swing driving mechanism comprises:

a circular arc gear installed on the feed slide, a circular arc guidepair and a swing shaft coder;

an anti-backlash gear installed on a swing slide for engagement with thecircular arc gear and a swing shaft motor used to drive theanti-backlash gear for rotation to realize circular arc swing of theswing slide along the circular arc guide pair.

In order to realize reaming of an elliptical recess, it is necessary tostart the swing driving mechanism; with the help of engagement betweenthe anti-backlash gear and the circular arc gear, the swing shaft motoraims to realize circular arc swing of the swing slide along circular arcguide pair to ensure feeding of cutting tool along swing trail.Furthermore, combined use of the anti-backlash gear and the swing shaftcoder is favorable for precise control of swing angle of the swingslide.

In a preferred embodiment, the rotation shaft driving mechanismcomprises a large pulley B for fixed connection with a revolvingrotation shaft and a revolving motor installed on the mounting base todrive the large pulley B via the synchronous belt.

The rotation shaft driving mechanism aims to realize revolution of therevolving rotation shaft; revolving rotation shaft is installed insidethe mounting base in a movable manner; large pulley B is fixed andcovered on the revolving rotation shaft; revolving motor makes use ofsynchronous belt to coordinate with large pulley B, and drive therevolving rotation shaft.

In a preferred embodiment, the eccentric regulating mechanism comprisesa bearing seat inside the revolving rotation shaft, a bevel gear B fixedand connected with a large pulley A inside the bearing seat, aneccentric ball screw transmission pair for transmission coordinationbetween eccentric slide and bevel gear shaft and a cross guide pair usedto realize eccentric linear shift of eccentric slide;

Screw inside the eccentric ball screw transmission pair is installedwith a bevel gear A for engagement with the bevel gear B;

The large pulley A is driven by the eccentric shaft motor installed onthe mounting base.

To realize helical milling function of the present invention, it isnecessary to make use of an eccentric regulating mechanism to regulateradial bias of a cutting tool in relation to the center of the revolvingrotation shaft at first; with the help of transmission coordinationbetween the synchronous belt and the large pulley A, the eccentric shaftmotor drives bevel gear shaft for rotation, and set the eccentric ballscrew transmission pair into motion through engagement between bevelgear A and B. This aims to make the eccentric slide shift along thecross guide pair, change the distance between the cutting tool andrevolving rotation shaft, and thereby realize regulation of the radialbias of cutting tool.

In a preferred embodiment, a synchronous locking mechanism is providedbetween the revolving rotation shaft and bevel gear shaft; thesynchronous locking mechanism comprises:

a cylinder with a built-in cylinder piston for slide coordination alongthe bevel gear shaft;

a mounting flange fixed with the bevel gear shaft;

a spring hollow shaft installed on the mounting flange in a movablemanner; an extension sleeve of this shaft oriented towards the cylinderpiston is provided with a spring;

a taper piston fixed to the extension end of the spring hollow shaft topress against the cylinder piston;

a spring sleeve fixed to the mounting flange; its inner wall is providedwith a bevel offsetting the conical surface of taper piston and apressing surface with circumference fitting with inner wall of therevolving rotation shaft.

According to the present invention, a peripheral conical surface of thetaper piston will press against a bevel of an inner wall of the springat locking status to make the periphery of spring sleeve press againstan inner wall of the revolving rotation shaft, and maintainsynchronization between the revolving rotation shaft and the bevel gearshaft. Once locking is released, the cylinder piston inside the cylinderwill extend to drive the taper piston and spring hollow shaft toseparate the bevel of spring and taper piston from that of the innerwall of spring sleeve. Once the pressure imposed on the bevel isreleased, the pressing surface on the periphery of spring sleeve is tobe separated from the revolving rotation shaft to release the locking.Similarly, once the cylinder inside the cylinder body is retracted, thespring as retracted will push the spring hollow shaft and taper pistonfor resetting. As a result of it, bevel of taper piston will pressagainst that of the inner wall of the spring sleeve to further makespring sleeve press against the inner wall of revolving rotation shaftto realize synchronous locking of revolving rotation shaft and bevelgear shaft;

Wherein, a bevel gear shaft penetrates through the cylinder forcoordination with a slide seal of the cylinder piston; the bevel gearshaft is provided with an air induction channel, which is connected tothe inner part of the cylinder via the air inlet to make the compressedair led in by the rotary joint come into the cylinder to drive thecylinder piston.

Therefore, it is essential to maintain synchronous revolution of theinternal bevel gear shaft simultaneously with rotation of revolvingrotation shaft so as to prevent change to bias of cutting tool, andimprove processing precision.

In a preferred embodiment, the mounting base is provided with aneccentric shaft length gage used for measurement, feedback and precisecontrol of radial bias to the cutting tool.

In a preferred embodiment, a cable tray is provided between the mountingbase and the spindle sleeve outside of the electric spindle.Furthermore, a stop bearing is provided between the spindle sleeve andeccentric slide. A cable tray is provided with cable in it. The cabletray and stop bearing aims to control spindle sleeve for horizontalmovement to prevent twisting of cable on the electric spindle duringrevolution of the electric spindle.

The present invention has the following advantages:

1) It is integrated with such functions as drilling, boring, reaming,helical milling and reaming of the elliptical recess;

2) The end connection assembly aims at modularization of all cables andpipelines to realize quick mechanical positioning and connection withCNC machine;

3) It is applicable to make use of the eccentric ball screw transmissionpair for high-precision regulation of bias to the cutting tool; it isalso applicable to make use of the eccentric shaft length gage formeasurement and feedback of bias to the cutting tool so as to ensureprecise regulation of bias to the cutting tool;

4) Feedback of position of such measuring elements as the feed shaftlength gage, linear grating and swing shaft coder can ensure precisedrilling of through hole and reaming of elliptical recess;

5) Industrial camera can correct position of prefabricated holes on workpieces; whereas four laser range sensors can detect normal vector ofhole position to ensure precise and safe drilling;

6) It can be used in combination with CNC machine to realize autodrilling of high precision and efficiency.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is the front view of the multifunctional end effector;

FIG. 2 is the left view of local A-A section as shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is the right view of local B-B section as shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is the structural diagram for an upper part of the swing slide55;

FIG. 5 is the enlarged view of the synchronous locking mechanism;

FIG. 6 is the vertical view of the multifunctional end effector (localsection view);

FIG. 7 is the structural diagram for the spring sleeve;

In the drawings: a bevel gear A 1, a bevel gear B 2, a revolving joint3, a bevel gear shaft 4, a cylinder 5, a large pulley A 6, an auxiliarybearing 7, a large pulley B 8, a bearing gland A 9, a cylinder piston10, a bearing gland B 11, a mounting base 12, a taper piston 13, aspring hollow shaft 14, a spring 15, a mounting flange 16, a springsleeve 17, a bearing spacer A 18, a bearing seat 19, a revolvingrotation shaft 20, a revolving bearing 21, a bevel gear shaft bearing22, a bearing gland 23, an eccentric shaft auxiliary guide 24, a guidewedge 25, a cross guide pair 26, an eccentric slide 27, a bearing gland28, a rotary seal plate 29, a spindle sleeve 30, a gas-liquid joint A31, a bearing seat 32, a bearing spacer B 33, a stop bearing 34, a cabletray 35, a gas-liquid joint B 36, an electric spindle 37, a stop device38, a cutting tool 39, an oil mist joint 40, a presser foot 41, apressing sleeve 42, a chip removing tube 43, an industrial cameraassembly 44, a camera cover 45, a supporting foot 46, an organ shield47, ball screw feed driving mechanism 48, linear grating 49, feed linearguide pair 50, a valve terminal 51, a feed slide 52, a photoelectricswitch 53, a base 54, a swing slide 55, a circular arc guide pair 56, aswing shaft coder 57, an end connection assembly 58, a feed motor 59, areset positioning and locking cylinder 60, a swing shaft motor 61, aneccentric ball screw transmission pair 62, a laser range sensor 63, aneccentric shaft motor 64, a revolving motor 65, a feed shaft length gage66, a presser foot guide 67, a cylinder 68, an eccentric shaft lengthgage 69, an anti-backlash gear 70 and a circular arc gear 71.

PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS OF THE PRESENT INVENTION

The multifunctional end effector as shown in FIGS. 1-6, comprising abevel gear A 1, a bevel gear B 2, a revolving joint 3, a bevel gearshaft 4, a cylinder 5, a large pulley A 6, an auxiliary bearing 7, alarge pulley B 8, a bearing gland A 9, a cylinder piston 10, a bearinggland B 11, a mounting base 12, a taper piston 13, a spring hollow shaft14, a spring 15, a mounting flange 16, a spring sleeve 17, a bearingspacer A 18, a bearing seat 19, a revolving rotation shaft 20, arevolving bearing 21, a bevel gear shaft bearing 22, a bearing gland 23,an eccentric shaft auxiliary guide 24, a guide wedge 25, a cross guidepair 26, an eccentric slide 27, a bearing gland 28, a rotary seal plate29, a spindle sleeve 30, a gas-liquid joint A 31, a bearing seat 32, abearing spacer B 33, a stop bearing 34, a cable tray 35, a gas-liquidjoint B 36, an electric spindle 37, a stop device 38, a cutting tool 39,an oil mist joint 40, a presser foot 41, a pressing sleeve 42, a chipremoving tube 43, an industrial camera assembly 44, a camera cover 45, asupporting foot 46, an organ shield 47, ball screw feed drivingmechanism 48, linear grating 49, feed linear guide pair 50, a valveterminal 51, a feed slide 52, a photoelectric switch 53, a base 54, aswing slide 55, a circular arc guide pair 56, a swing shaft coder 57, anend connection assembly 58, a feed motor 59, a reset positioning andlocking cylinder 60, a swing shaft motor 61, an eccentric ball screwtransmission pair 62, a laser range sensor 63, an eccentric shaft motor64, a revolving motor 65, a feed shaft length gage 66, a presser footguide 67, a cylinder 68, an eccentric shaft length gage 69, ananti-backlash gear 70 and a circular arc gear 71.

The feed linear guide pair 50, linear grating 49, ball screw feeddriving mechanism 48, end connection assembly 58, feed motor 59, presserfoot guide 67, cylinder 68 and feed shaft length gage 66 are alloperatively installed on the base 54. The feed slide 52 is operativelyconnected with the ball screw feed driving mechanism 48. The ball screwfeed driving mechanism 48 is operatively connected with feed motor 59.The feed motor 59 drives ball screw feed driving mechanism 48 forrotation to realize feeding motion of the feed slide 52 along the linearguide pair 50.

The swing shaft coder 57, circular arc gear 71 and circular arc guidepair 56 are operatively installed on the feed slide 52. The mountingbase 12, swing shaft motor 61 are operatively installed on the swingslide 55. The swing slide 55 is operatively connected with circular arcguide pair 56. The swing shaft motor 61 is operatively connected withanti-backlash gear 70.

The anti-backlash gear 70 is operatively engaged with circular arc gear71. The swing shaft motor 61 makes anti-backlash gear 70 rotate torealize circular arc swing of swing slide 55 along circular arc guidepair 56.

The revolving rotation shaft 20 is provided in the mounting base 12. Themounting base 12 is operatively connected with revolving rotation shaft20 via the revolving bearing 21. The revolving rotation shaft 20 isfixed to a large pulley B with screws. The revolving motor 65 isinstalled on the external side of mounting base 12. The revolving motor65 makes use of the large pulley B 8, revolving rotation shaft 20 andcross guide pair 26 to make eccentric slide 27 rotate.

The bearing seat 19 is provided in revolving rotation shaft 20. Thebearing seat 19 is connected with the bevel gear shaft 4 via the bevelgear shaft bearing 22. The bevel gear shaft 4 is fixed to a large pulleyA. The eccentric slide 27 is connected with the bevel gear shaft 4 viathe eccentric ball screw transmission pair 62. The eccentric slide 27 isconnected with the revolving rotation shaft 20 via cross guide pair 26.The eccentric shaft motor 64 is operatively installed on the externalside of mounting base 12. The eccentric shaft motor 64 makes use of thelarge pulley A to drive bevel gear shaft for rotation. The bevel gearshaft 4 makes use of eccentric ball screw transmission pair 62 to makethe eccentric slide 27 shift along cross guide pair 26.

The electric spindle 37 is fixed on the eccentric slide 27, and thecutting tool 39 is installed on the electric spindle 37. Driven by thecylinder 68, the presser foot 41 can move along the presser foot guide67. The presser foot 41 is provided with four laser range sensors 63,the pressing sleeve 42 and the chip removing tube 43.

The device in this embodiment is integrated with such functions asdrilling, boring, reaming, helical milling and reaming of ellipticalrecess. The end connection assembly is integrated with all cable andpipeline modules to realize quick mechanical positioning and connectionwith CNC machine. The electric spindle 37 is linked with the eccentricshaft motor 64 via the eccentric slide 27, eccentric ball screwtransmission pair 62 and bevel gear shaft 4 to realize radial bias ofcutting tool.

The spring sleeve 17 aims to realize synchronous locking of therevolving rotation shaft 20 and bevel gear shaft 4 under the support ofthe taper piston 13 as pressed by spring 15 and cylinder piston 10. Thecorresponding synchronous locking mechanism comprises the cylinder 5,cylinder piston 10, taper piston 13, spring hollow shaft 14, spring 15,mounting flange 16 and spring sleeve 17. The structure of the springsleeve 17 is as shown in FIG. 7, on which deformable elastic trip 72 iswound and intermittently distributed. The inner wall of the elastic trip72 is provided with a bevel matched with peripheral bevel of the taperpiston 13. When extruded by the taper piston 13, the elastic trip 72will be deformed slightly outwards to press internal part of revolvingrotation shaft 20. In particular, the air as released will pass throughthe end air tube and rotary joint 3 to come into the bevel gear shaft 4,which will further come into the space as formed by cylinder 5 andcylinder piston 10 through the small hole on bevel gear shaft. Thecylinder piston 10 will push the taper piston 13 to make the elasticbody formed by the spring hollow shaft 14 and spring 15 retractbackward. Owing to coordination between the taper piston 13 and thebevel of spring sleeve 17, the spring sleeve 17 is to be isolated fromrevolving rotation shaft 20 to make bevel gear shaft 4 disengaged fromrevolving rotation shaft 20, and release synchronous locking. If the airis switched off, such locking mechanism will automatically rebound underthe action of spring 15 to realize synchronous locking of bevel gearshaft 4 and revolving rotation shaft 20.

Under the action of the cylinder piston 10, the air coming into cylinder5 from rotary joint 3 will push the taper piston 13 to eliminate thesupport action of the spring sleeve 17 so as to release synchronouslocking of revolving rotation shaft 20 and bevel gear shaft 4. The feedshaft length gage 66 and linear grating 49 aim to measure and feedbackfeed rate of presser foot 41 and feed slide 52 to realize precisecontrol of recess reaming depth. The eccentric shaft length gage 69 aimsat measurement, feedback and precise control of radial bias of cuttingtool. The anti-backlash gear 70 and swing shaft coder 57 are used incombination to realize precise control of swing angle of swing slide 55.The reset positioning and locking cylinder 60 makes use of the latchconnected to feed slide 52 to maintain swing slide 55 at zero positionduring drilling of through hole on the device. The cable tray 35 andstop bearing 34 aim to control spindle sleeve 30 for horizontal motionto prevent twisting of cable on electric spindle 37 that is inrevolution. The industrial camera assembly 44 is installed at the frontpart of base 54 to detect prefabricated holes position on work pieces.The presser foot 41 is installed with four laser range sensors 63 tocheck normal vector to the position of drilling hole on work pieces.

The operation process of the present invention is stated as follows:

1. The end connection assembly 58 is used to install the deviceaccording to present invention on the CNC machine;

2. The CNC machine was used to shift the device according to the presentinvention to the position of benchmark hole on the work piece. Theindustrial camera assembly 44 is used to measure deviation to theposition of benchmark hole. The coordinate of actual hole position wasdefined based on position deviation and theoretical coordinate of thehole as measured. The device of the present invention, is furthershifted to the actual hole position;

3. Four laser range sensors 63 on presser foot 41 are used to measuresurface normal of prefabricated hole on the work piece. The CNC machineis used to adjust posture of the device according to the presentinvention to make sure that main axis is in superposition with surfacenormal of work piece.

4. The cylinder 68 pushes presser foot 41 out to make pressing sleeve 42press against the work piece;

5. The induced draft fan is turned on to make chip removing tube 43produce suction force. Step 6 is executed for drilling, boring andreaming, and Step 8 and 11 were switched over respectively in case ofhelical milling and reaming of elliptical recess;

6. The electric spindle 37 is started. The feed motor 59 is used to setball screw feed driving assembly 48 into rotation to realize feedingmotion of feed slide 52 along linear guide pair 50; maintain linear feedof cutting tool until the hole is drilled;

7. The feed slide 52 and presser foot 41 are retracted, and thenswitched over to Step 12;

8. The air coming into rotary joint 3 is used to release synchronouslocking of revolving rotation shaft 20 and bevel gear shaft 4. Theeccentric shaft motor 64 is set into rotation based on aperture offabricated hole D and cutting tool diameter d. The eccentric regulatingmechanism was used to adjust cutting tool bias distance

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The air circulating inside rotary joint 3 is turned off upon completionof adjustment to realize synchronous locking of revolving rotation shaft20 and bevel gear shaft 4;

9. The revolving motor 65 is used, and the large pulley B is used tomake revolving rotation shaft 20 rotate. The electric spindle 37 willrotate around axis of revolving rotation shaft at radius e. The electricspindle 37 is started. The motor 59 is driven to make ball screw feeddriving assembly 48 rotate to realize feeding motion of feed slide 52along linear guide pair 50 and feed of cutting tool along the helicaltrail until the drilling is completed;

10. The feed slide 52 and presser foot 41 are retracted. The revolvingmotor 65 is turned off. The air coming into rotary joint 3 is used torelease synchronous locking of revolving rotation shaft 20 and bevelgear shaft 4. The eccentric regulating mechanism is used to adjust biasof cutting tool e to 0; switch over to Step 12;

11. The electric spindle 37 is started. The feed motor 59 is used tomake ball screw feed driving assembly 48 rotate to realize feed motionof feed slide 52 along linear guide pair 50. The swing shaft motor 61 isstarted, and the anti-backlash gear 70 and circular arc gear 71 are usedto realize reciprocating swing of swing slide 55 along the circular arcguide pair 56. The coordinated movement of feed slide 52 and swing slide55 are used to realize feed of cutting tool 39 along the swing trailuntil reaming of elliptical recess is completed;

12. The electric spindle 37 is turn off. The induced draft fan is turnedoff. The CNC machine is used to shift the end effector to next positionfor drilling or stop it.

What mentioned above are preferred embodiments of the present invention,which do not intend to restrict the present invention; any alteration,equivalent substitution and improvement as made based on spirit andprinciples of the present invention are within the protection scope ofthe present invention.

1. A multifunctional end effector, characterized in that themultifunctional end effector comprises: a base (54) and a cutting tool(39); a feed slide (52) on the base (54), a feed driving mechanism usedto drive the feed slide (52) to put the cutting tool (39) in motion; aswing slide (55) on the feed slide (52) and a swing driving mechanismused to drive the swing slide (55) to realize circular swing of thecutting tool (39); a mounting base (12) on the swing slide (55); themounting base (12) is provided with a revolving rotation shaft (20) anda rotation shaft driving mechanism used to drive the revolving rotationshaft (20) and make the cutting tool (39) rotate; an eccentric slide(27) fixed to an end of the revolving rotation shaft (20); the cuttingtool (39) is connected to an end of the eccentric slide (27) via anelectric spindle (37); an eccentric regulating mechanism used toregulate the eccentric slide (27) to control radial bias of the cuttingtool (39).
 2. The multifunctional end effector according to claim 1,characterized in that an end connection assembly (58) used for fixedconnection with the lathe is installed on one side of the base (54); theother side of the base is provided with a presser foot (41), a cylinder(68) is used to put the presser foot (41) into motion along a presserfoot rail (67) and a feed shaft length gage (66) is used to measure feedrate of the presser foot (41).
 3. The multifunctional end effectoraccording to claim 2, characterized in that the presser foot (41)comprises a pressing sleeve (42); numerous laser range sensors (63) areinstalled on a periphery of the pressing sleeve (42); a central part ofthe pressing sleeve (42) is a working cavity for penetration of thecutting tool (39); the cavity wall is linked up with the chip removingtube (43).
 4. The multifunctional end effector according to claim 1,characterized in that the feed driving mechanism, comprises a linearguide pair (50), a ball screw feed driving assembly (48) connected withthe feed slide (52), a feed motor (59) used to make the ball screw feeddriving assembly (48) rotation to realize feed motion of the feed slide(52) along the linear guide pair (50) and a linear grating (49) used tomeasure feed rate.
 5. The multifunctional end effector according toclaim 1, characterized in that the swing driving mechanism comprises: acircular arc gear (71) installed on the feed slide (52), a circular arcguide pair (56) and a swing shaft coder (57); an anti-backlash gear (70)installed on the swing slide (55) for engagement with the circular arcgear (71) and a swing shaft motor (61) used to set the swing slide (55)into circular arc swing along the circular arc guide pair (56) throughdriving the anti-backlash gear (70) for rotation.
 6. The multifunctionalend effector according to claim 1, characterized in that the rotationshaft driving mechanism comprises a large pulley B (8) for fixedconnection with the revolving rotation shaft (20), a revolving motor(65) installed on the mounting base (12) for driving the large pulley B(8) via a synchronous belt.
 7. The multifunctional end effectoraccording to claim 1, characterized in that the eccentric regulatingmechanism comprises a bearing seat (19) provided inside of the revolvingrotation shaft (20), a bevel gear B (2) provided inside the bearing seat(19) for fixed connection with the large pulley A (6), an eccentric ballscrew transmission pair (62) for transmission coordination between theeccentric slide (27) and the bevel gear shaft (4) and a cross guide pair(26) used to set the eccentric slide (27) into eccentric and linearmotion; a ball screw inside the eccentric ball screw transmission pair(62) is installed with a bevel gear A (1) for engagement with the bevelgear B (2); the large pulley A (6) is driven by the eccentric shaftmotor (64) installed on the mounting base (12).
 8. The multifunctionalend effector according to claim 7, characterized in that a synchronouslocking mechanism is provided between the revolving rotation shaft (20)and the bevel gear shaft (4); the synchronous locking mechanismcomprises: a cylinder piston (10) provided inside the cylinder (5) fortransmission coordination along the bevel gear shaft (4); a mountingflange (16) fixed with the bevel gear shaft (4); a spring hollow shaft(14) installed on the mounting flange (16) in a movable manner, and aspring (15) on the extension end sleeve oriented towards the cylinderpiston (10); a taper piston (13) fixed to the extension end of thespring hollow shaft (14) and pressed against the cylinder piston (10); aspring sleeve (17) fixed to the mounting flange (16); its inner wall isprovided with a bevel offsetting the conical surface of taper piston(13) and a pressing surface with circumference fitting with therevolving rotation shaft (20).
 9. The multifunctional end effectoraccording to claim 8, characterized in that the mounting base (12) isprovided with an eccentric shaft length gage (69) used to measure radialbias of the feedback cutting tool (39).
 10. The multifunctional endeffector according to claim 1, characterized in that a cable tray (35)is provided between the spindle sleeve (30) outside of the mounting base(12) and the electric spindle (37), and a stop bearing (34) is providedbetween the spindle sleeve (30) and the eccentric slide (27).